I am super excited to share the news that in September 2017, I shall join the philosophy department at Durham University as a permanent lecturer in Post-Kantian Philosophy. I couldn't be happier about it!

The article that I wrote with Holly Lawford-Smith on race privilege has just been published by the open access Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, you can download it for free here.

To whet your appetite, here is the abstract: "For all the talk there has been lately about privilege, few have commented on the moral obligations that are associated with having privilege. Those who have commented haven't gone much beyond the idea that the privileged should be conscious of their privilege, should listen to those who don't have it. Here we want to go further, and build an account of the moral obligations of those with a particular kind of privilege: race privilege. In this paper we articulate an understanding of race privilege, say how a person can know when she has it, and argue that a race-privileged person has obligations to offset her privilege. We make concrete suggestions for how she can, at least approximately, do this. We use particular racial group disparities in the United States as our running example throughout the paper, although our conclusions generalize."

I thoroughly enjoyed giving my paper: Monkeys and Monads - George Holmes Howison, James Ward, and the Unexpected Marriage between Darwinian Evolutionary Theory and Leibnizian Metaphysics' at Harvard last Tuesday. I am going to give the paper again at the HOPOS 2016 conference at the University of Minnesota, June 22nd-25th. I am looking forward to the conference very much.

The full conference details are below:

Mansfield College, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TFPreregistration is requested for number planning, but not essential. A small charge (not more than £5) may be made on the day in order to cover refreshment costs. Light lunch will be available for purchase in the College café both days.

There will be a conference dinner on Monday 14th March at Mansfield College. Preregistration and prepayment for dinner IS ESSENTIAL (cost will be approx. £25).